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As I’ve seen in other injury/fatality crash sites, the investigation team will paint markings on the road where various elements were located (tires of the vehicle, the bicycle, and the victim). I spotted some painted markings on the East side of the intersection. The marking was “RPI” which could stand for “resting place individual”. This is just a guess. Jonathan said he’ll provide more info tomorrow.

RPI could be “reconstructed point of impact” but that’s a guess, too. Compare that with where q’Tzal reported seeing the bike (green arrow). The points are roughly 175′ apart; seems a bit far but we don’t know the car’s speed.

Esther C, the car only needed its rear end sliding a little bit outside the front tire tracks in order to sweep the bike with its right side. A front wheel drive car under braking or throttle lift tends to oversteer just that way when it swerves. I don’t know if that’s what actually happened in this case, just that’s how the described impact could happen.

This would have been one of at least two Reference Points (RP1) marked with a nail and the label in paint or whatever miracle chemical sticks in falling rain. From “Motor Vehicle Accident Forensic Survey” at http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/fs03c%5Cfs03c_ helmricks_46… and “Basic Accident Scene Mapping” at oregonforensicengineering.com/linked/basic%20 scene%20mapp… I can say with certainty that this was used in the mapping of some recent vehicular incident. It is, however, highly unlikely that any evidence, vehicle or body at rest would have been at this point of reference: the mere establishment of which would contaminate the evidence of the crime scene being recorded. All drawings shown in the two PDFs explain that these RPs are uninvolved points outside the scene used to accurately reconstruct what happened inside the area later when the road has to be opened and legal implications are afoot.

How do you hit somebody from behind with the right side of your car? According to the Oregonian he swerved to avoid the bike and hit him with the right side of his car but hit him from behind. Unless he was sliding completely sideways I do not understand how you can hit someone with from behind with the right side of your car.